It's still alive. There error message is telling you that there is an expired certificate or your system clock is set incorrectly. Either fix your system clock or load the certificate and set an exception on it. You probably have to load up your keychain.

already checked the given links when doing my research before posting the question. it seems they are not suitable for my issues as my Entourage 2008 worked very well before early 2014 and nothing changed before the issue rose. the iMac also has correct date and time, always. not only me. heaps of reports show a lot of other users got the same issue at about the same time...

regarding the host names, i actually use imap-mail.outlook.com and smtp-mail.outlook.com in my configuration but the host was automatically changed at run time...

Anything after 14oct2014 could properly disable SSLv3
No hope for you though:
Office 2008 for MAC : Product support ended on 4/9/2013
You can use web services entourage instead, apple mail, or thunderbird.

Your entourage is effectively killed by microsoft. You can download more recent Entourage from them (dont blame me if import is not instant)
That is the way to your mails. I find thunderbird quite swift and easy. But you may elect to stay in MS world.

wondering why i didn't see any official announcement or statement from MS about retiring this product.

> You can download more recent Entourage from them

where? i believe i am already using the latest and last version of Entourage.

> But you may elect to stay in MS world.

seems i have to. honestly the main reason i keep using Entourage is just because it is part of MS Office for Mac 2008, the only office productivity software suite installed on my aged iMac. i just want to try keep using all stable applications already installed on my Mac. there is no need to upgrade them as they just meet my requirements and just work well (except the Entourage of course).

i just want to try keep using all stable applications already installed on my Mac. there is no need to upgrade them as they just meet my requirements and just work well (except the Entourage of course).

Entourage which went end of life almost 2 years ago now longer works in this instance so it is either time to upgrade or stop using it.

You can use FREE web services edition entourage 2011 that is specifically designed to implement SNI and Alternte Subject Named SSL extensions defined as internet standard more than 10 years ago - yes, you guessed it - in 2003.

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